Improvement in shade or globe holders for lamps



L. l. ATWUD.

Shade nr Globe-Holders for Lamps.

No. 141,251l Pa'1en1ed1u1y29,1873.

UivrTED STATES PATENT OEEIoEo LEWIS J. ATWOOD, OF WATEEBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE PLUME 87 ATWOOD MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHADE OR GLOBE HOLDERS FOR LAMPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 141,251, dated July 29, 1873 application filed May 20, 1673.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS J. ATwooD, of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented an Improvement in Shade or Globe Holders for Lamps7 of which the following is a specifica tion:

In Letters Patent N o. 104,558 a shade-holder is represented with Wire arms and sliding clamps or ferrules, and the arms receive ,either the iange of the glass globe or the Wire ring or arms for a paper shade.

My present invention is a modification of, and improvement upon, the device set forth in the aforesaid patent; and consists in a sheetmetal anged ring for the globe or shade, applied to and combined with Wire arms that are made double and united at their ends to the sheet-metal flanged ring by sheet-metal caps and rivets.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a vertical seetiou of the said shade-holder, and Fig. 2 is an inverted plan ofthe same.

The sheet-metal ring is made with a base, a, and cylindrical flange or rim b, of a size to receive a glass globe or shade, and to this ring the double Wire arms d d are -united. by means of rivets t' passing through the attened sheet-metal caps c, into which such wires d d are inserted, and also .through between the wires themselves, thereby making a very firm and neat connection between the Wire arms and the metal ring. The wire of one arm extends to the next in the form of a bow or arc of a circle, that sets against the lamp-collar, and is clamped thereto by the 

